CURRENT POPULATION: 5,905 approximated.

LOCATION230 miles (3 hours 30 minutes southwest of San Angelo)

PLACES OF INTEREST:Museum of the Big Bend, Sul Ross State University, and Murphy Street.

SPECIAL EVENTS: Biggest events: Cowboys Poetry, ArtWalk, Viva Big Bend, Drive Big Bend, Big Bend Ranch Rodeo, Alpine Cowboys Baseball, Trappings of Texas.

STOP FOR A BITE: Reata, Century, CowDog (food trailer), La Casita, Come and Take It Bar-B-Q.

CLAIM TO FAME: Alpine is the largest city in the largest county (Brewster) in the largest state (among the lower 48 states).Boyhood, the 2014 movie starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Lorelei Linklater, and Ethan Hawke, featured places in and around Alpine [via wikipedia].

HISTORY: The area had been a campsite for cattlemen tending their herds between 1878 and the spring of 1882, when a town of tents was created by railroad workers and their families.This section of the railroad was called Osborne, and so it became the name of the small community for a brief time.The town’s name was changed to Alpine on February 3, 1888. At the time, a description of the town mentioned a dozen houses, three saloons, a hotel and rooming house, a livery stable, a butcher shop, and a drugstore, which also housed the post office [via wikipedia].


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